ANTH 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Émile Durkheim, Mechanical And Organic Solidarity, Positivism
16 Apr 2016
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Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns about the notes. Resolution of social conflict (instead of social revolution) Addresses of contemporary european society including changes in society, division of labour, and new classes. In other disciplines, he was known as the father of sociology, most especially empirical sociology. He came of age in a time of political turmoil in france. He lived through the changing political regimes that were sometimes violent. Durkheim was deeply critical of the industrial revolution and the impact of capitalism. He had a more hopeful and conciliatory view of society than marx did. The development of institutions that allow different groups of societies to coexist. Organic metaphor: society is a system of interconnected parts. He saw suicide as a societal problem, not an individual or psychological problem. Examples of institutions following the model of society: kinship, family structure, education, government, religious systems, church, law.
